Buffalo Chicken Strips

Total Time: 1 hr 6 mins Preparation Time: 36 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons tomato ketchup (use heinz brand)
• 1 -2 tablespoon hot sauce
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
• coarse salt, as required
• fresh ground black pepper, as required
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 lbs chicken breasts, cut into 16 equal sized strips
• 4 cups oil

Recipe

• 1 melt butter on medium flame in a pan.
• 2 stir in ketchup and hot sauce.
• 3 remove from heat.
• 4 cover and keep aside.
• 5 in a medium bowl, whisk together flour, 1 1/2 tsps. salt and 3/4 teaspoons black pepper powder.
• 6 sprinkle 1/2 cup of the flour mixture evenly on a rimmed baking sheet and keep aside.
• 7 whisk together 2 eggs and 2 tsps. water in a shallow dish.
• 8 then dredge chicken in the flour mixture in small batches, shaking off the excess of the mixture.
• 9 dip the chicken in egg mixture to coat. shake off excess.
• 10 dredge the chicken in flour again.
• 11 place chicken on a sheet sprinkled with flour.
• 12 in a 5 quart saucepan, heat oil to 350f on a deep-fry thermometer(to check if oil is ready, drop a pinch of flour in it; if it sizzles means the oil is ready).
• 13 add half the quantity of chicken.
• 14 cook for 6 minutes or until golden brown.
• 15 transfer onto clean kitchen paper towels to drain off excess oil.
• 16 likewise, cook the remaining chicken also at 350f in oil and drain on clean kitchen paper napkins.
• 17 toss chicken strips with the reserved sauce and serve at once.
• 18 enjoy!